The Multi-Lingual Button Quail

Taking Button on the road? Across the border or across the pond, here's how to tell folks who your little companion is without sounding like a total tourist! (Culled from various sites on the Internet; sorry, I can't help you with pronunciation!)

The Button Quail we commonly keep as a pet is known by many other names! Its scientific name (Latin) can be either coturnix chinensis or excalfactoria chinensis. In English,the Button Quail is also called the "Chinese Painted Quail", the "King Quail", and the "Blue-Breasted Quail". Below are some other translations I have found:

French	Caille peinte
German	Zwergwachtel
Japanese	[Nankin] Hime-Uzura
Italian	Quaglietta Mascherata, Quaglia di Cina
Danish	Kinesisk Dværgvagtel
Swedish	Kinesiska Dvärgvaktlar
Dutch	Chinese Dwergkwartel
Finnish	Siniviiriäinen
Chinese	xiao-an-chun, lan-xiong-chun
Vietnamese	cay Trung Quoc
Czech	Køepelka èínská
Malaysian	Pikau
Indonesian	Puyuh Pepekoh
Chilean	Codorniz Pintada China
Djabwurrung (Australian Aboriginal Dialect)	yuugib
Dhauwurdwurrung (Australian Aboriginal Dialect)	arrokii, peepeep

The "true" buttonquails (turnix spp.) are not quails at all, and are not commonly kept as pets (in fact, there may only be two or three in captivity in the United States at this time!), but they also are worthy of mention here:

ENGLISH	Little Button-Quail	Barred Button-Quail (Bustard Quail)	Painted Button-Quail	Red-backed Buttonquail
LATIN	Turnix sylvatica	Turnix suscitator	Turnix varia	Turnix maculosa
GERMAN	Laufhÿhnchen	Bindenlauf- hÿhnchen	Buntlauf- hÿhnchen	Fleckenlauf- hÿhnchen
FRENCH	Turnix mugissant	Turnix combattant	Turnix bariolé	Turnix moucheté
DANISH	Europæiske Løbehøne
ITALIAN	Quaglia tridattila
SPANISH	Torillo Andaluz			Torillo Moteado
SWEDISH	Springhöna	Bandad Springhöna
DUTCH	Gestreepte vechtkwartel
JAPANESE	hime mifu uzura	Mifu-uzura
CHINESE	lin san-zhi-chun	zong san-zhi-chun
VIETNAMESE	cun cut nho	cun cut lu'ng nau

More Buttonquails, and Where They Live

ENGLISH	LATIN	GERMAN	WHERE?
Little Button-Quail	Turnix sylvatica	Laufhÿhnchen	India, S.E. Asia, Australia, Africa
Little Quail	Turnix velox	Zwerglauf- hÿhnchen	S.W. Australia
Painted Button-Quail	Turnix varia	Buntlauf- hÿhnchen	Australia, New Calodonia
Red-backed Button-Quail	Turnix maculosa	Fleckenlauf- hÿhnchen	Coastal Northern Australia
Black-breasted Button-Quail	Turnix melanogaster	Schwarzbrust Laufhÿhnchen	Queensland, New South Wales

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